Bit of an iffy list if you ask me. There a few definitely look like token gestures to make the list appear more rounded. Wintersun for the folk metal fans, Rhapsody for the Power Metal fans, and Drudkh for the fans of more Atmospheric black metal.

So it is most important huh? Then how the fuck does Cult of Luna get the number 2 slot? As good as they are they are nothing more than Neurosis clones and speaking of Neurosis, where is Eye of Every Storm?

and this is the same magazine that proclaimed Monotheist as album of the decade yet put it at number 21, below Triptykon. WTF?

I'd love to see the justification for GHUA, but it seems like they are baiting the readership with that, trying too hard to be unconventional.

As you say, a dodgy list in a lot of places but some that i would agree with (DsO, Pig Destroyer, Converge, Gojira) and others that whilst nice to see on the list, the albums chosen should be different

Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:15 am

Myrddin

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Re: Issue 251

The COL made me raise my eyebrows too, Axis of Perdition aught to be there.

I do like (and own) that Insect Warfare but would not list it as an important release of the decade.

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Fri Sep 12, 2014 4:32 am

Chantler

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Re: Issue 251

I've only just got this. 'Most important' differs from 'best' inasmuch as as it allows things like Iowa and Lamb Of God to be chosen over better albums that didn't have such a big 'impact' on 'the scene', and I would say Primordial presage all this British Isles 'heritage black metal' that's causing such a stir nowadays, and there's four albums to choose from, but mostly I was just delighted to see Dawn Of Victory in there.

Brought back some memories as I remember Dopethrone and Blackwater Park were two of my first assignments for Tegs and it was ever so exciting. I have a tape somewhere of the Oborn/Bagshot/Greening line-up chatting in a park in 2000. I remember Tim saying his favourite bands were Nirvana and Burning Witch, and that's what Electric Wizard sounded like.

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